Rory McIlroy Wins It All

Rory McIlroy Wins It All September 25, 2016

RoryMcIlroyJust minutes ago, the 27-year old Irishman Rory McIlroy won the PGA Tour’s Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta, Georgia. He won on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with Kevin Chappell and Ryan Moore. By virtue of this win, McIlroy simultaneously won the FedEx Cup. It fattened his bank account. Rory won $3 million in the Tour Championship and $10 million in the FedEx Cup. That’s the biggest payday in pro golf history.

All three players finished the regulation 72-hole tournament with a total of 268 strokes. Both McIroy and Moore shot the low round for the final day–a 64. Third round leader Dustin Johnson shot 73 to finish out of contention. Kevin Chappell was leading the tournament down the stretch. But he hit poor drives on the last two holes that cost him a bogey and a par on the par five 18th hole.

Chappell lost the first playoff hole, on the 18th, with a par while Moore and McIlroy birdied. McIlroy hit a prodigious drive over 350 yards across somewhat of a dogleg setting himself up for a short iron to the par five green. He then placed his second shot six feet from the pin for an eagle putt to take home all the marbles. Without taking any time or a practice stroke, the McIlroy had a big lip-out that sent him back to the 18th tee for the second playoff hole, this time only with the steady, gritty, short-but-straight hitting Ryan Moore. They parred and went to the long par-three 15th hole for the third playoff hole. Rory holed a fifteen-foot birdie putt to ring his cash register big time. And back in pubs of Ireland, the golfing aficionados there were lifting their mugs and shouting, “the Mac is back.” For, the curly five-foot, nine-inch, and well-built Irishman had fallen out of the limelight of late after holding the #1 Sony World ranking in golf.


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